A planned phone-in vote of ministers on whether to approve the appointment of Avigdor Liberman to defense minister has been pushed off, in a sign that a coalition crisis may persist.
According to Haaretz, a vote on Liberman, originally planned for Monday, won’t take place until Wednesday at the earliest.
Netanyahu and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett were expected to work out a tiff holding up the appointment at a meeting earlier in the day, but the delay of the vote signals that effort has been unsuccessful.
Bennett and his Jewish Home party are threatening to vote against Liberman’s nomination unless a demand to increase information sharing among ministers on security matters is accepted.
Jewish Home have said they will torpedo the government and force new elections over the issue if need be.
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